Mushroom foraging

This thread really makes me smile for some reason. Good work dudes.

Wow, such a "straight" comment from balki.

I guess so... Its evocative... dudes out on bikes, picking mushies for dinner. Like it.

Some I saw out on a walk today:

Not sure what this is, but I brought one back anyway:

Found a few puffballs like this:

Lots of cracking boletus, but nearly all of them were soft and slimy underneath.

This looked cool:

Some weird mutant green/pink almost iradescent ones:

I also saw some ina coniferous wood which I assumed to be fly agaric's, but young ones which had not gone red yet. But it turns out, they were a massive collection of DEATHCAPS! no picture though.

Got some fairy ring champs drying on string right now! They smell like sawdust but I reckon they'll taste good.

Serbian saying: All mushrooms are edible, but some only once.

Seems like Sharkstar did well! Was it last year? I'm on phone too - no dates on posts.

Nah bro, this thread is fresh innit.

Some I saw out on a walk today:

This looked cool:

A Parasol no?

There are two types IIRC, one that stains red when cut/bruised. Better if it doesn't.

(Internetz mushroom ID could be dodgy...)

I'm not into fairy ring chapignon - I only ate them once, but they tasted kind of sawdusty too!

A Parasol no?

There are two types IIRC, one that stains red when cut/bruised. Better if it doesn't.

(Internetz mushroom ID could be dodgy...)

yeah yeah thats your parasol DFP
they get bigger and flatten out when mature, theres no better eating imo.
(but then I dont live in ceps or chantarelle country)

@DFP top one looks like a saffron milkcap - should have a hollow stem and bleed orange when cut.

I saw absolutley zillions on sunday in Suffolk, but I had idea what most of them were. Lots of one with a tawny brown top, amanitas I think so I let them alone. Think I found a mahooosive cep but it had a greenish brown gills, not white like my books had ... but the same colour like the ones you get dried in shops. It was old and a bit mangled though. The stem must have been thicker than my wrist though.

Think I spotted a parasol (or something of similar shape and size) popping up out of some old straw but I couldn't get to it to have a look, too much fencing around.

I want to go walking in the woods with Sharkstar!

Me too!

Think I found a mahooosive cep but it had a greenish brown gills, not white like my books had ... but the same colour like the ones you get dried in shops. It was old and a bit mangled though. The stem must have been thicker than my wrist though.

Ceps have tubes rather than gills, sort of looks like a sponge underneath the cap, usually pale yellow or ochre colour. They bruise greeny blue in some varieties of boletus.

You and Balki are welcome to join this Saturday morning if we get a bit of rain tomorrow and Friday: I'm hoping to venture out to Hampshire again. It's an hour out of London on the train, though. I'm sure there must be closer foraging, but it's the best I've found.

...if we get a bit of rain tomorrow and Friday: I'm hoping to venture out to Hampshire again. It's an hour out of London on the train, though. I'm sure there must be closer foraging, but it's the best I've found.

Sharkstar, we hang out in the same places. Just got back from a job down there. It is as dry as a bone, and there's not much new growth.

But...

Mmmm. Risotto coming up.

Nice Ceps. Did you find them under a lot of shade? They've held up well against the dry this week.

The two small ones were in the shade, and were newly up from 5 days before. The big one was in quite open silver birch common land, somewhere I've not looked before, but will do again...

You been out?

Abbney Park Cemetry anyone? I know nothing about mushrooms but I know the cemetry has loads. Be nice if we could only pick mushies we knew were edible though - no point despoiling the local environment...

but you will be eating the souls of dead people.
you cool with that?

The two small ones were in the shade, and were newly up from 5 days before. The big one was in quite open silver birch common land, somewhere I've not looked before, but will do again...

You been out?

I haven't been out this weekend. May have a look around more locally tomorrow, but I'm not hopeful. Mid-week rainfall, come on down.

I told Mal about this thread tonight. She loves 'shrooming*. These are from Poland.

*foraging, not the other kind

Fantastic haul! Are they from this year? The spotted red ones fourth pic down aren't edible, as I'm sure she knows.

tommorrow, as part of a post work ride, in the woods,I am there where found parasols last year, yes!
that flash photography makes them look even more like found treasure, love it .

I told Mal about this thread tonight. She loves 'shrooming*. These are from Poland.

*foraging, not the other kind

Fantastic haul! Are they from this year? The spotted red ones fourth pic down aren't edible, as I'm sure she knows.

In Germany, these are the best-known example of a poisonous kind of mushroom.

This was last year I think but the forests around her place always provide examples like this. I've got some similar photos from when I was there maybe 3 years ago.

Just got back from this weekends trip - one cep.........ONE!
Probably the best weeks hunting followed immediately by the worst!